Mike Morrison

From PDFs to Possibilities - Curvenote Blog Welcoming product visionary Jillian Hale as we build a modular, dynamic future for research. Jillian’s background spans product strategy, communication, and platform design. She brings a unique blend ...

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Thrilled to be on this amazing team and be part of the mission to help science move beyond the PDF! 🚀

Really want to get you, me, and Nicholas Rowe together for a panel or podcast or something — as like the only three Poster Scientists I’m aware of in the world 😂

YouTube video by Mike Morrison, PhD How do scientists browse scientific posters? We can measure it!

This new video by @mikemorrison.bsky.social is relevant to my interests…. In conference posters!

youtu.be/ErTfb2plrrU

Underrated science tools startup trap:
If your users are trained to expect bad UX, good UX feels disorienting.
But if you copy existing patterns, you can't differentiate.
Designing science tools is a bigger puzzle than most founders think.
Curious how other science/tech folks navigate this.

PS - The few poster presenters I talked to about the study were universally PSYCHED to see even a rough count of how many people walked by their poster.

We have a chance here to give scientists a long overdue sense of impact — also advance the science of posters.

YouTube video by Mike Morrison, PhD How do scientists browse scientific posters? We can measure it!

If we want to improve scientific poster sessions, we have to get good at measuring them.

So I went to Europe's largest liver science conference and attempted to measure how scientists browse posters.

Findings soon. Watch the walkthrough:
youtu.be/ErTfb2plrrU

#ScienceUX #betterposter #EASL2025

Whoa beautiful! And I’m also living the laptop/Wacom setup. But I don’t draw much. It’s more for ergonomics.

Oh cool! Gonna try it!

Love to see this @elife.bsky.social article using short titles for the thumbnail card and also a takeaway-title for the full article.

This helps you skim & decide on thumbnails faster, and learn from the article itself sooner (if people only read the title, make the title a lesson).

#scienceUX

The biggest publishers pulled profit margins in 2023 that rival Big Tech.

And they still charge you to publish and your library to read.

When are we going to start seriously thinking of alternatives to reform #PeerReview?

🧪 #SciPub #AcademicPublishing

Oof. So like hardcore vector illustration? From what I’ve seen that’s the hardest to break free from Illustrator for. But I’m keeping an eye on Affinity products for that. 😬

(If you use Desktop not tablet?)

Depends on the task! It helped me to kind of articulate for myself WHAT I needed to do, then find a software for that.

What’s your most common design task?

#oss #floss #Adobe subscription is expensive

Alternatives: Inkscape, GIMP, Audacity.

Please quote and share what you use. Use #oss to keep it going.

#graphicdesign #gameDev #digitalArt #pixelArt #photography

Looks great. I especially love the two bullet point limitations! "Limitations takeaways" are like on the cutting edge of poster design haha.

Image of poster:Polwart, Calum; Wadd, Nicholas; Nelson, Benjamin (2025). Real life comparison of toxicity from cetuximab and panitumumab in the first line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer. ESMO-GI Poster. figshare. Poster. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28989710

Delighted to be sharing some work we have been working on for sometime:

Cetuximab Vs Pantitumumab - we found no efficacy difference but did find different side effect profile. Presenting at #ESMOGI25 this week

doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

I'll be near the poster Friday PM if anyone wants to talk

For anybody considering it, it's been 4 months since I broke up with Adobe after nearly 30 years designing with Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and After Effects for animations.

It's...fine? Figma & Davinci Resolve handle 95% of what I need with better #UX, and I save $100s/year.

True #scicomm joke:

A friend of mine is a professional science illustrator, and was helping a scientist design a poster.

The poster had 65 graphs on it. 📊

She asked the scientist "Which graph is the most important?"

The scientist replied "All of them."

Which, technically, is true?

Whao thanks, Richard! I figured it must be one of the most efficient impact-per-dollar platforms in all of science. Easily in scientific publishing. Nice to see that confirmed.

Where do you want to see the platform go next?

Relatedly, even though it’s free for you to post a preprint, does anybody know the operating cost-per-preprint that a place like @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social is covering for us?

Wait, doesn’t #metascience do a great job of recording all sessions? Can you catch the recording or did you kinda want to be there in person?

(Asking for conference-goer research purposes haha)

Which pier had the better review?

New kiki/bouba test just dropped

The economic effects of federal cuts to US science — in 24 graphs Is US science facing a recession? Growing evidence points to a looming downturn.

It's not just academia that will be affected by the disruptions to research funding

https://go.nature.com/4khYPIA

Hi, in case your phone didn't pick up the QR code to the slides of my Hitch-Hikers Guide to Computational Metabolomics talk this morning at #Metabolomics2025, featuring #xcms, #massbank, not #metfrag but #CASMI and #MetFamily, please find them at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

That did not disappoint haha. Great tips and thanks for taking the time to…re-use them. 😆

Nice! Did they share any tips on making said data interoperable?

Fantastic name!

Kevin wearing a black t-shirt standing outside Lighthouse Bookshop. He is pointing at his book Rainbow Trap.

Next week! On 3 July, Rainbow Trap is launching in Edinburgh (and online) @lighthousebks.bsky.social 🌈

Excited to explore how categories and classifications shape the possibilities of LGBTQ lives!

🎟️ Some tickets still available: lighthousebookshop.com/events/rainb... #LGBTQ #books #booklaunch